Chapter 8.10
SANITATION
Sections:
8.10.010 Offensive occupations.
8.10.020 Drainage into streets prohibited.
8.10.030 Nauseous odors, accumulations of waste and similar nuisances.
8.10.050 Depositing dead animals, garbage or refuse.
8.10.060 Rat control at slaughterhouses and butcher shops.
8.10.070 General sanitary condition required.
8.10.010 Offensive occupations.
No person shall carry on, pursue, or maintain, within the city limits, any business or occupation offensive to the senses or prejudicial to public health or comfort.
(Code 1965, § 5100; Code 2002, § 38-1. Ord. No. 18; Ord. No. 235)
8.10.020 Drainage into streets prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any person, whether owner, occupant, lessee, or agent, to permit the discharge from any drain, sink, water closet, privy, washhouse, bathroom, stable, slaughterhouse, sewer, or private drain to connect with or run into or upon any street, alley, or park.
(Code 1965, § 5101; Code 2002, § 38-2. Ord. No. 18; Ord. No. 235)
Cross references: Streets, sidewalks, and other public places, Title 12.
8.10.030 Nauseous odors, accumulations of waste and similar nuisances.
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit any premises belonging to him or occupied by him, or any cellar, vault, pool, privy, sewer, slaughterhouse, or private drain thereon or therein, to become nauseous, foul, or offensive or prejudicial to public health; and if any person shall have or permit [on any premises] owned, occupied, or controlled by him any nuisance or any accumulation of filth, garbage, decaying animal or vegetable matter, or any animal or human excrement, or any privy, water closet, or cesspool, the contents thereof filling the same to within 30 inches of the ground surface, the owner or occupant shall be notified to remove and abate such nuisance within two days.
(Code 1965, § 5102; Code 2002, § 38-3. Ord. No. 18; Ord. No. 235)
Cross references: Public nuisances, § 8.25.010 et seq.
8.10.040 Ratproofing.
All building and basement walls of all storerooms, warehouses, residences, or other buildings, all chicken yards, pens, chicken coops or houses, and all barns and stables shall be so constructed or repaired by the use of screens, netting, cement, or other material to be approved by the Health Inspector and designed as to prevent rats and other rodents gaining entrance to such buildings, and to prevent rats and other rodents being harbored underneath the same or within the walls thereof; and all food products or other products, goods, wares, and merchandise, whether kept for sale or for any other purpose, shall be so protected as to prevent rats or other rodents from gaining access thereto, or coming in contact therewith; and all storehouses, warehouses, residences, and other buildings in the city shall be provided with one or more traps of such pattern as shall be approved by the Health Inspector, which traps shall be freshly baited twice each week or more often, if necessary. The traps shall be inspected daily and rats or other rodents caught therein removed and the traps reset and re-baited. The traps shall be thoroughly smoked when re-baited.
(Code 1965, § 5103; Code 2002, § 38-4. Ord. No. 18; Ord. No. 235)
8.10.050 Depositing dead animals, garbage or refuse.
It shall be unlawful for any person, whether owner, lessee, occupant, or agent, to keep in any building or areaway, or upon any premises, alley, street, or public place adjacent to any premises, or to dump or place upon any land, or in any water or waterway, any dead animal, butcher’s offal, fish, or parts of fish, or any waste vegetable matter, ashes, swill, or any refuse matter whatever. All refuse matter mentioned in this section must be collected and kept in tightly covered or closed metal cans or vessels, with a tag or label bearing the name of the owner securely attached thereto, plainly designating the premises with which the can or vessel is being or is intended to be used.
(Code 1965, § 5104; Code 2002, § 38-5. Ord. No. 18)
Cross references: Animals, Title 6; solid waste, Ch. 8.20.
8.10.060 Rat control at slaughterhouses and butcher shops.
All slaughterhouses and butcher shops shall have and keep about the premises two or more traps of an approved pattern, which shall be freshly baited at least twice a week, and such traps inspected daily, so that rats or other rodents caught therein may be removed and the traps thoroughly smoked, re-baited, and reset.
(Code 1965, § 5105; Code 2002, § 38-6. Ord. No. 18; Ord. No. 235)
8.10.070 General sanitary condition required.
All buildings, places, and premises in the city shall continuously be kept, by the owners or occupants thereof, in a clean and sanitary condition.
(Code 1965, § 5106; Code 2002, § 38-7. Ord. No. 18; Ord. No. 235)